i have to do a history project. I need 8 items from the 1840-1850 that I can put in a brown paper bag?

Answer 1

A blueprint - invented by John Herschel in 1840
A stapler - invented by Samuel Slocum 1841
Antisceptics - invented by Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis 1847
Safety pin - invented by Walter Hunt 1849
Postage Stamp - invented in England by Rowland Hill 1840
Telegraph - The first telegraph was sent between Baltimore & Washington D.C. in 1844 by Alfred Vail to Samuel F.B. Morse
Baseball - The game was first played (on record) in 1842. Official rules were first drawn up in 1845.

Answer 2

Peanut Butter - "The first commercial peanut crop was grown in Virginia in the early to mid 1840's"
1851 - the sewing machine was invented - maybe put some thread in the bag.
1856 - Safety matches were invented..not sure if you're allowed to take matches, but maybe just an empty book.
A potato - "potato famine of 1840-60"

Answer 3

1. Cherries - they killed Zachary Taylor in 1848.
http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/z_x12final_illness_g.htm

2. Tippecanoe button - Presidential Campaign of 1840
http://www.politicalbadges.com/William%20Henry%20Harrison%20medals%20(1836;%201840).htm

3. Map of Mexico before and after the War of 1847
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/forts/military.html
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/mexico/emergence.htm

4. A copy of the "Spot Resolutions" in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln demanded the Polk administration indicate where Mexico had attacked the United States
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/lincoln-resolutions/

5. A copy of Self Reliance, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-1st_Series_02_Self-Reliance.htm

6. Silver paper (used to make early photographs) – Matthew Brady opened the first photographic studio in America in 1845.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Brady

7. A telegram – the telegraph made major inroads during the 1840s.
http://www.telegraph-history.org/

8. A copy of Commonwealth vs. Hunt, the Massachusetts legal decision that made labor unions legal in America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_v._Hunt
http://plaza.ufl.edu/edale/Commonwealth%20vs%20Hunt.htm

Answer 4

how bout a
bible lol
hmm what else
a cross
a witch?
uhh ii dont know lol

id go with bible as one of them lol for the whoel witch thingy and look up the decade 1840 to 1850 to see like relics of te past and like make replicas of them or get pictures ad btw do u go to woodbridge high this project sounds just as lame as the eacher who likes to assign it !

Answer 5

a toy car a coke bottle deck of cards